Multi-objective Unequal Area Pod-structured Healthcare Facility Layout Problem with Daylight Requirements

2021 ◽  
pp. 107722
Author(s):  
Farouq Halawa ◽  
Sreenath Chalil Madathil ◽  
Mohammad T. Khasawneh
Keyword(s):  
Facility Layout ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Layout Problem ◽  
Facility Layout Problem ◽  
Multi Objective

DYNAMIC FACILITY LAYOUT WITH MULTI-OBJECTIVES

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450027 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY YU-HSIN CHEN ◽  
JU-CHIEH LO
Keyword(s):  
Quadratic Assignment Problem ◽  
Facility Layout ◽  
Quadratic Assignment ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Layout Problem ◽  
Facility Layout Problem ◽  
Dynamic Facility Layout Problem ◽  
Multi Objective

A problem in multi-objective dynamic facility layout is achieving distance- and adjacency-based objectives for arranging facility layouts across multiple time periods. As a non-deterministic polynomial time-hard problem, it resembles the quadratic assignment problem (QAP), which can be solved through meta-heuristics such as ant colony optimization (ACO). This study investigates three multi-objective approaches coupled with ACO to solve this problem. As the experimental design, we apply the proposed methods to solve the dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP), multi-objective facility layout problem, and multi-objective DFLP based on data sets from the literature to test the quality of the solution. The results show that the proposed methods are effective for solving the problem.

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